brisbin33

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thanks for the reply guys,

as armonox said, HFS+ support has been around for a bit but writing and journaling don't go together.

time machine says journaling needs to be enabled to work, but fedora says journaling needs to be disabled to work. but i have heard a few people mention using a samba share as a time machine backup; this is in direct contradiction to that first sentence. i was wondering if anyone had successfully done this, if so how?

thorn168

Just to follow up it appears that OS X 10.5 has some "issues". One the most vexing are inconsistent problems with connecting to,reading and writing to Samba shares. It seems that unpatched Leopard will work for some users but patched Leopard introduces a more consistent pattern of "breaks" in file sharing to and from Samba servers.

Here are the links for more details: http://www.macwindows.com/leopard.html

http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?p=423988

I have personally experienced problems with a Patched Leopard hanging or corrupting files moved from a Samba share to the desktop.

This is definitely an Apple OS issue so don't blame/bug the Samba developers about this.

ciclistadan

i was trying to do just the thing. Had a mac at work which we kept all our music on for streaming during the arduous hours of the workday and after the motherboard fried I wanted to swap it to another system...mounting -t hfsplus worked like a charm and saved me hours of head vs. wall time.

thanks